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Halloween Contest Winners

Our little Halloween costume contest ended today, so, time to announce the winners and show some photos!

Costume nut Cris did an awesome Bender that was just impossible to beat. He paraded his hard work on the Las Vegas Halloween Comic Con, where he got it signed by Fry's voice actor Billy West. The costume even got glow-in-the-dark eyes and a booze filled chest compartment! 1st place out of 4 in the Robo-league.

Second winner is Margaret, who went as our favourite space captain - Leela. Humans (and mutants) are quite hard to match in costumes, but she did a good job with the hair and outfit. Attention to detail with Leela's wrist thingy won her the Humanoid league title.

The (sorry) non-winning entries by Razz, Scott, Joe and Jason together with bigger pictures of the winners can be found on the Halloween Contest page.

Cris and Margaret will be getting mail from me regarding the Futurama DVD/VHS set they'll recieve as a prize.

UPDATE: Our webmaster Jon submitted a special late entry: The "trash man from the future who's also a ninja" costume. He said he even got some (XMas?!?) candy with it!

UPDATE2: A late entry by Bray finally gives us a Zoidberg, too! Now waiting for a Nibbler entry.

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BrainSluggoNov 9th 2003, 12:24
Margaret's idea of making Leela's big ol' eye into a mask was pretty damned clever. Jason's Fry is funny (that hair!) yet...disturbing. Razz's Bender's see-through eyes are a sweet touch, too. What, no Zoidbergs? Oy!
KazzahdraneNov 9th 2003, 15:41
Excellent entries, Chris definately deserved to win the Robo-league. Genius!!
kimncrisNov 10th 2003, 01:34
Whoah! Cool costumes! I wish you guys were trick or treating with me in Vegas :)

Thanks for the props, [mArc].

-cris
scottNov 10th 2003, 01:43
i think they all look like freaks!...lol!
MargaretNov 10th 2003, 06:20
My only regret is that I didn't see "Less than Hero" until a few nights ago on Cartoon Network... I would have gone as Clobberella.
8-)
daveNov 11th 2003, 19:08
what a bunch of sad fucking losers
KazzahdraneNov 11th 2003, 20:04
Maybe, but they *do* look cool!
ScottNov 12th 2003, 04:12
Hey I didn't know I was going to be in a contest! After I decided to make a Bender mask for Halloween, I found maybe 2 pics on the www during my research. So after Halloween I sent the pics of my mask in to this site to hopefully help other potential Benders next year with another visual reference.

I should have got video of Bender playing Black Sabbath tunes!
JamesDeanNov 12th 2003, 06:31
Oh man, Karate with a trash can league
LOL
MargaritaNov 12th 2003, 18:05
"Margaret"?!?! poser!! ;)
margaretNov 12th 2003, 23:56
how does bender the robot have sex?...lol...
BessieNov 13th 2003, 05:35
I think Bender has sex with his antenna, cuz in "Bend Her" they cut off his antenna [his "manhood"] when they made him a woman! :D
JenNov 13th 2003, 16:00
Cris's Bender costume rocks! I loved the website picture of Bender drinking in various places - a nice touch!
crisNov 13th 2003, 19:59
Thanks, Jen :)

We had a lot of fun taking those pics, and putting together the "scrapbook" website with all of the postcards :)

-cris
ScottONov 14th 2003, 21:53
These costumes are HORRIBLE!
crisNov 15th 2003, 20:22
I got my DVD's today. Thanks [mArc], you are the COOLEST!

Started watching them...gotta love "clamps" from Bender Gets Made. "clamp this! Clamp that! Bada Climp Bada Clamp!" :)

thanks again.

-cris
digitaliaJoeNov 16th 2003, 21:19
ok, ScottO, let's see you do better. that's no far to cris, he worked damn hard on his costume and you can tell - i think it looks amazing.

mine i threw together in less than a week, and everyone who saw me in it thought it rocked, so it made my evening. it wasn't "HORRIBLE" at all.

d
ThomasJKruseNov 17th 2003, 06:40
That fry costume, i have that same exact jacket but in Black....didnt know there was red :(
RazzNov 17th 2003, 20:44
Cris great bender outfit. I sent pics in not knowing there was a contest. Glad to see other up.

Cris, I was curious how you made your costume or where you got it. Superb job.

Mine was rather time consuming to make. I had a girl steal my helmet from the party I was at. Friends have told me they saw it at clubs and other parties that night. The true Bender thing to do. Guess it even became a gender-Bender.
CrisNov 18th 2003, 01:46
Thanks, Joe and Razz.

It's mostly made out of sheet plastic that I bent into shape and then smoothed out with "Bondo" and painted. The arms and legs are rubber strips covered with grey vinyl tape.

I posted a much longer parts breakdown over at PEEL in the fan art section. I can't post the link here, but it is called "Newbie Howdy and Thanks" if I recall correctly...

I wish I'd taken some progress pics, but I really wasn't expecting it to come out that great and didn't think anyone would be interested. I guess it came together pretty well in the end though.

I do have some pic's of the insides of the head and body I could post over there if it would be of any help.

-cris
BenNov 19th 2003, 12:04
Did the late entery of Zoidberg win anything.
Morbo thinks he poops on all of the other enterants thats my thoughts on the matter.
P.S. how did that stupid leela get up win a prize
BessieNov 19th 2003, 12:09
that late entry kicked ass
DanNov 19th 2003, 12:31
that late entry from bray was so wikid as, it insipred me to do my own thing like that and now i can feel free to express my feeling on futerama to the public and not feel like a loser
edelNov 19th 2003, 20:10
To #21:

Nope, late entries don't win anything. And Margaret won because I said so :P

All the entries were good, but I liked her attention to detail with the hair, wrist thingy, and the attempt at the one-eyed look.